Arizona Statewide Primary
Arizona Primary 2026
Every declared candidate for Governor and all nine U.S. House districts on Arizona’s July 21 primary ballot, grouped by party. Click any candidate to research them with Quarex.
Election Day · Tuesday, July 21, 2026
How Arizona’s Primary Works
Arizona holds a partisan primary: each party runs its own contest, and the winner of each becomes that party’s nominee for the November 3 general election. This is different from California’s top-two system — here a Republican primary and a Democratic primary run side by side, and you vote in one of them.
The primary is semi-open. If you’re registered with a party, you receive that party’s ballot. If you’re registered as independent or with no party preference, you may request any one recognized party’s primary ballot — but you have to ask for it.
New date for 2026: a bipartisan state law moved Arizona’s primary from early August to the second-to-last Tuesday in July, giving election officials more time to prepare general-election ballots for military and overseas voters. This year that date is Tuesday, July 21.
Statewide: Governor
Governor is the marquee statewide race on this ballot. Candidates are grouped by party as they filed. Independent candidates who qualify appear on the November general ballot rather than in the July 21 primary.
→ Click any candidate to open the Quarex research panel. Every candidate gets the same two sets of standardized questions Quarex applies to every politician in the library. Character: eleven questions on campaign funding, controversies, conflicts of interest, and who materially benefits from their agenda. Issues: fourteen questions on what they would actually do — healthcare, cost of living, housing, immigration, abortion, guns, climate, and more. Or generate a full downloadable profile. Answers stream live from the Quarex AI with web search. Same questions for every candidate, no favorites.
Independent — advances to November general (6)
U.S. House of Representatives
All nine of Arizona’s congressional districts are on the ballot. You vote only in the district where you live — check your county recorder’s sample ballot to confirm which one. Candidates are grouped by party; Libertarian, Green, and independent candidates who qualify advance to the November general election. Asterisk (*) marks the sitting incumbent.
Democratic (1)
Yassamin Ansari * Incumbent
Republican (1)
Juan Ciscomani * Incumbent
Democratic (1)
Adelita Grijalva * Incumbent
Republican (1)
Abraham Hamadeh * Incumbent
Democratic (2)
Bernadette Greene Placentia
What Else Is on Your Ballot
Beyond Governor and U.S. House, your July 21 primary ballot also includes Arizona races this page doesn’t yet track candidate-by-candidate:
- Other statewide offices — Secretary of State, Attorney General, State Treasurer, Superintendent of Public Instruction, State Mine Inspector, and Corporation Commission seats.
- State Legislature — your legislative district’s Senate and House seats.
- County and local races — supervisors, sheriff, county attorney, school boards, and judges.
For your exact ballot — including your legislative and congressional district — check your county recorder’s sample ballot. You can look it up by address at your county recorder’s website or through azsos.gov/elections. We don’t pretend to know your district better than your recorder does, so we point you to them. You can also browse every declared Arizona federal candidate on Quarex.
November 3, 2026: The General Election
The winner of each party’s primary advances to the November 3 general election, where they’ll face the other parties’ nominees plus any independent and minor-party candidates who qualified. We’ll publish an Arizona General 2026 page closer to that date.